Growing Up Sexually

 

TANNA (NEW HEBRIDES, MELANESIA)

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Featured: Big Nambas, Tanna, Mewun


 

 

Tanna boys, may, after their circumcision at age 5 to 11 “chew kava for their elders and have sexual intercourse” (Mills, 1961)[1].

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

Janssen, D. F., Growing Up Sexually. VolumeI. World Reference Atlas. 0.2 ed. 2004. Berlin: Magnus Hirschfeld Archive for Sexology, Berlin

Last revised: Sept 2004

 



[1] Mills, A. R. (1961) Ritual Circumcision on Tanna, New Hebrides, Man 61:185